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Song Silenced

Artist Frank London American, 1876–1945

Date1938

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions54 x 48 1/2 in. (137.2 x 123.2 cm)
Frame: 58 1/4 x 48 3/8 x 2 in. (148 x 122.9 x 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Frank M. London and Mr. Marsden London

Object numberG.57.31.1

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceProbably created New York, 1938; collection of the artist; artist’s estate, 1945; given to NCMA, 1957.
Published ReferencesJerome Klein, "Work by Frank London," New York Post (January 7, 1939).

Edward Alden Jewell, Two Painters Give One-Man Displays" (exhibition review), New York Times (January 7, 1939), Sec. Art, 18 (not specifically mentioned).

E. A. J. [Edward Alden Jewell], “Other Shows” (exhibition review), New York Times (January 8, 1939), mentioned 131.

Melville Upton (review), New York Sun (January [ ], 1939).

Paul Bird, "London After Seven Years," Art Digest 13 (January 15, 1939), 19 (as Bird Cage), illus. (b-w) 34.

American Paintings since 1900 from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), cat. no. 46, illus. (b-w).

200 Years of the Visual Arts in North Carolina (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1976), cat. no. 31, illus. (b-w).

“Highlights of the American Collection,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Spring 2009), discussed and illus. (color) 11.

Martha R. Severens, “Things Wondrous & Humble: American Still Life,” in American Art Review 25, no. 5 (2013), briefly discussed 4–5, illus. 5.

Daniel Belasco, “Bradley Walker Tomlin: Gentleman Abstract Expressionist,” in Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue) (New Paltz, NY: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, 2016), briefly discussed and illus. (color) 72, fig. 26 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Montross Gallery, "Frank London: Paintings," January 3-14, 1939, no. 1.

Woodstock, NY, Woodstock Art Association Gallery, "Frank London: A Retrospective Showing of his Painting," 1948, then traveling (to North Carolina State Gallery, Raleigh, among other sites), illus. (b-w).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "American Paintings since 1900 from the Permanent Collection," April 1-23, 1967, cat. no. 46, illus. (b-w).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, " The North Carolina Gallery: An Introductory Exhibition," October 5-November 11, 1972.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "200 Years of the Visual Arts in North Carolina," September 12-October 31, 1976, cat. no. 31, illus. (b-w).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Art in North Carolina, 1912-1954: Paintings from the Permanent Collection," January 24-March 22, 1987; Davidson, NC, Davidson County Art Guild, August 1987; Wingate, NC, Wingate College, February 24-March 24, 1988; Lumberton, NC, Roberson County Library, March 30-May 14,1993.

Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, "Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Paintings from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 5-April 28, 1991.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Highlights of the American Collection, February 15-August 2, 2009.

Winston-Salem, NC, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, “Things Wondrous & Humble: American Still Life,” August 8–December 8, 2013.
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